Official Languages committee  If you go up to Gaspé, or Rouyn-Noranda, or Métis-sur-Mer, you'll find small communities there, but that's not unlike the francophones in the rest of Canada. It's not to say that Montreal doesn't have challenges.

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely. Our small communities are very similar to small communities in the rest of Canada where there are francophones. We have the same challenges. We have different challenges in Montreal, but there are challenges.

Official Languages committee  May I say something?

Official Languages committee  Mr. Tabachnick said that youth sustain the educational sector—elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and the rest. We come at it as well from the community sector. Youth are our only anchor to sustain the vitality of our community in Quebec, so the more that youth are interested

Official Languages committee  Precisely. What's more, Quebec may not consider it to be in its best interests to have as clear a picture as we, in the minority community, would like. The responsibility for the study, then, would really have to fall to the federal government. In some provinces, the communities

Official Languages committee  I am familiar with it, having worked in the federal government at the time. Are you referring to the post-census survey?

Official Languages committee  It's been a while. I would say that the realities of the English-speaking and French-speaking communities aren't that different. I can't say much more than that because I haven't looked at the 2006 census for quite some time. I remember that, at the time, the report was seen as s

Official Languages committee  That may well be appropriate.

Official Languages committee  To be fair, we have probably two other sectors that receive national funds. CEDEC would be one, and the health care...what am I trying to say?

Official Languages committee  Community Health and Social Services from Health Canada would be the other. There are no other capable organizations to do policy work in the sectors.

Official Languages committee  Having worked in Ontario for almost 20 years and having worked on French-language education with the ministry, I can talk about the comparison between the anglophones in Quebec and Franco-Ontarians. We have to compare a declining community with a developing one. We have to compa

Official Languages committee  We'll have to come back to that.

Official Languages committee  I think they are pointing to me. I know le par et pour. The “by and for” is very important for the communities outside Quebec. I think it goes back to your question and your remarks a few minutes ago. Le par et pour in Quebec is not the same as le par et pour elsewhere in th

Official Languages committee  My partner suggested I answer the first round on indexation. I'm going to give you an example, and this is probably the same for each of the provinces. Each province is allocated, in terms of Canadian Heritage, some money to work within the province. That's very important in Queb

Official Languages committee  May I perhaps double back now to the skew in the system that doesn't always allow us to be at the national table? I'll give you a real example. There is a Canada-provincial services agreement in each of the provinces, and each province works with their provincial folks to sit a